UrbanA Community Conversations are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. On Tuesday 26th May (15:00-16:30 CEST) Presentors, Rafael Calado from FABLAB Lisbon, Luis Matos from Rés do Chão and Patrícia Robalo from Lisbon's Housing...

Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures. We will...

We are excited to invite you for our very first online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” with a screening of  “PUSH - The Film” on the global housing crisis. This is organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with UrbanA and DRIFT. It is the first part of #SustainableJustCities event...

To avoid injustices emerging from sustainability governance in your city, you can not only ask what needs to be done to address specific local challenges, but also how broader governance processes could be changed in order to avoid injustices across all sectors and in the longer term too.  The latter is a more difficult question to...

Although the current covid-19 crisis has seen strong benefits for health and local economies, access to (quality) food has worsened for the most vulnerable with risks of increased hunger and malnutrition, exacerbated by potential localized price hikes.  In this Community Conversation, we will discuss: How have cities supported those in need of food during the...

UrbanA Community Conversations are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. Sara Ortiz Escalante will open the Community Conversation speaking about the relevance of gender perspectives to create sustainable and just cities. Sara works at...

UrbanA will participate in the upcoming Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus" on September 8th. We invite friends and colleagues to attend who are also involved in creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a "Pay What You Want" register fee, to allow for greater accessibility. It will be an experimental forum,...

Presenters: Burcu Eke-Schneider (UrbanA fellow) + team from Wuppertal urban garden, Germany Sep 15th 2020, 1500-1630 CEST Peacebuilding is an invaluable method for promoting urban sustainability and justice that contributes to understanding the root causes of problems at the micro level and finding solutions. An important intervention for preventing violence, it works with inclusiveness to...

The Municipalities in Transition (MiT) project team developed a systemic methodology to provide local communities an experiential and community-led way to develop future-oriented ecological and social solutions. Successfully tested in 6 pilots worldwide and now spreading in new pioneer communities, the MiT team aims to trigger deep and permanent cultural change where the best result...

SATURDAY 19:00 -20:30 (UTC+01 - Lisbon time) Livraria Ler Devagar, Lisbon + Online over zoom + youtube UrbanA synthesizes and brokers knowledge for sustainable and just cities and translates it into action. It facilitates interaction among diverse participants, and empowers them to apply this knowledge about just sustainable cities locally. It also aims to influence...

UrbanA Community Conversations (CoCos) are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. In this CoCo we will explore how city planners and development agencies can create eco-inclusive districts. The discussion is led by UrbanA fellow...

How can we create more just and sustainable cities from the children's point of view? How can we produce knowledge on our cities in collaboration with children? How can we as scholars, urban planners or activists overcome our adultcentrism? What is the pandemic teaching us about justice and sustainability from the children's point of view?...

UrbanA Community Conversations are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. Under the current pandemic, there is an increasing difficulty to engage and curate business communities. The German city of Gelsenkirchen is experiencing difficulties to...

Our TNOC "Seed Session" event with UrbanA, ECOLISE & Communities for Future will be on Monday 22nd of February at 16.15-17.45 CET About the Festival  TNOC Festival pushes boundaries to radically imagine our cities for the future. A virtual festival that spans 5 days with programming across all regional time zones and provided in multiple...

There are many inspiring initiatives for sustainability and justice in cities across Europe, but how can these experiences be effectively shared with others? Translocal learning - the process of sharing locally-rooted knowledge with people in other places - is no easy feat. Join this webinar to learn more, and to help give us feedback on...

The Urban Berlin Arena will focus on governance arrangements  for sustainable and just cities. We will learn and get inspired together with practitioners from Berlin and other corners of Europe, on how to organize for more sustainable and just cities and to best tackle inequality and exclusion. When? Pre-arena event: 23 February 2021 (15:00 -...

This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online and is on Wednesday 26th from 14-16h CEST (13h Lisbon). Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital...

How do we approach environmental justice in the city? How can we understand and address the tensions and potential synergies between ecological sustainability and social justice? Join this webinar in our series on #JustSustainabilityTransitions to discuss #UrbanEnvironmentalJustice and #GreenGentrification with Dr. Panagiota Kotsila and Prof. Dr. Isabelle Anguelovski (BCNUEJ).  Date & time: Thursday, 17 June,...

With or without Corona, online meetings are here to stay, especially in the world of transnational collaboration. Remote online meetings have the potential to contribute to more sustainability and justice, in terms of decreasing environmental damage from international travel and allowing for more inclusive participation. But how do we make online meetings sustainable and just?...

In a sustainable and just city, the economic, political and social choices which created unsustainable and unjust structures are put under the microscope. Participate in our webinar to learn more about challenges related to the tension between social justice and ecological sustainability. We will share practical examples and resources on how to actually start thinking...